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You don''t have to be a soccer fanatic to appreciate this book. Franklin Foer merely uses the world''s most popular sport as a lens to dramatically illuminate the religious, economic, political, and ethnic divisions around the world. Foer will take your students on a surprising journey through the world of soccer, shattering the myths of our new global age along the way. From Brazil to Bosnia, and from Italy to Iran, How Soccer Explains the World chronicles how a sport and its rabid followers highlight such societal fault lines as terrorism, poverty, anti-Semitism, and radical Islam. ''Full of important insights into both cultural change and persistence. . . . Foer''s soccer odyssey lends weight to the argument that a human world order is possible.''-Washington Post Book World
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"What a brilliant idea! Franklin Foer provides a personal yet richly-reported look at how approaches to soccer tell us so much about different societies and their cultural attitudes. He even uses the game to dissect the ideological and class divides in America. The result is both amusing and revealing-and delightfully provocative." - Walter Isaacson, author of Benjamin Franklin
"Foer's book shows that soccer is much more than just kicking the ball around-it is about the way soccer exists in people's lives. Brilliantly written and well thought out, it is required reading not just for soccer lovers, but anyone who wants to understand what is going on in the world today." - Aleksandar Hemon, author of Nowhere Man and The Question of Bruno
"A wildly entertaining romp through the world with a smart, nervy guide. Tucked into this amazing snapshot of unconventional wisdom is a brilliant description of the chilling interface of sports and politics and how it's used to manipulate our lives." - Robert Lipsyte, New York Times contributing columnist and author of In the Country of Illness
"Important and controversial as the subject of globalization is, it's not often much fun to read about. This book is a dazzling exception-and no less a contribution to serious study of the issue for being a delight. It's full of lively tales, colorful characters, and humor-all on behalf of explaining, clearly and convincingly, how the world is changing in momentous ways." - Strobe Talbott, president, The Brookings Institution
"Most people who write about globalization never leave the world of fancy hotels and conferences. Franklin Foer actually went out and did a day's work. His reporting among soccer's lumpen proletariat illuminates the dark complexities of globalization." - Robert D. Kaplan, author of Balkan Ghosts and The Ends of the Earth
"Franklin Foer has written a book that is significantly entertaining if you like soccer, and entertainingly significant if you do not." - Adam Gopnik, author of Paris to the Moon
"With this superbly written and elegantly reported book, Foer has . . . brought back a kaleidoscopic view of a vibrant game and the people who believe in it. . . . A lively travelogue." - Chicago Tribune
"A fantastic, unexpected, and hugely entertaining book, written with wit and intelligence and of course a love of the game." - William Langewiesche, author of American Ground
"Step aside Tom Friedman, Sam Huntington, and Amy Chua. Franklin Foer's dark and witty tale of the soccer world reveals the meaning of globalization in all its joys and horrors." - Robert Kagan, author of Of Paradise and Power
"An insightful, entertaining, brainiac sports road trip." - Wall Street Journal
"Terrific. . . . A travelogue full of important insights into both cultural change and persistence. . . . Foer's soccer odyssey lends weight to the argument that a humane world order is possible." - Washington Post Book World
"Absorbing. . . . Vividly reported. . . . Foer's ample documentation of the thorough, and occasionally ludicrous, entanglement of sport, politics, and culture in the rest of the world is stunning." - San Francisco Chronicle
"Foer is an accomplished journalist. His sketches of historical background are deftly done. His skills as a narrator are enviable. His characterizations, many of them based on interviews, are comparable to those in Norman Mailer's journalism." - Boston Globe
"Sensational. . . . The smartest sports book of the summer." - ESPN.com
